“Whenever a comedian friend will go, ‘I had a bad set last night,’ I go, ‘Dude, only George Wallace kills every night. Is your name George Wallace? Because if you’re name’s not George Wallace, you really shouldn’t be complaining.’ ”

Rock credited Hard Rock Hotel headliner Andrew Dice Clay for psyching him up before recording his career-exploding HBO special “Bring the Pain” in 1996. Rock ran into Dice “buying underwear” three weeks before he filmed “Pain.”

Dice said, “What are you doing?”

Rock answered, “Eh, I’m getting ready to do this special.”

“Dice goes, ‘Why do you say it like that? It’s a (expletive) special. It’s a big (expletive) deal. Do you know what this (expletive) can do for your (expletive) life?”

Dice told Rock to go home and watch “Rocky,” because it would remind Rock why he got into show business — “it will all come back to you.”

“And I watched ‘Rocky,’ and it all did come back,” Rock said.

Since then, Rock persuaded Wanda Sykes to watch “Rocky” before filming specials. And Tyler told Rock she has watched “Rocky” too, because of Rock’s Dice story.

Rock admitted he was a comedy snob but not anymore.

“I see the good in every comedian. I used to hate everybody. Now I’m just: ‘Carrot Top’s great. He is hard working. He is the greatest prop comic to ever live.’ ”

In fact, Rock owns a few Carrot Top barstools.

“He has barstools — I guess he sells at his show — and I have carrot top barstools at my house,” Rock said.

But Rock also told Tyler about his family’s horrific experiences with racism. His grandfather may have killed a guy in terribly racist South Carolina. His mother got her teeth fixed by a veterinarian there because dentists wouldn’t “do black teeth.” His father had “a bag of piss” thrown at him for being a black driver in New York. And Rock’s teachers called him the “n” word.

“Slavery was over in the ’70s. The Jackson 5 ended slavery,” Rock joked. “Whenever I get a (film) script, and it’s a period piece, I always go, ‘I don’t want to do anything that happened before the Jackson 5.’ ”